The keffiyeh, familiar from images of PLO leader Yasser Arafat who died in 2004, is joined by barbed wire. The words are in the colours of the Palestinian flag.
Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 2005 Peter Moloney
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Vintage RHC [Red Hand Commando] stencil on Newtownards Road calling for the release of loyalist prisoners.
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Copyright © 2005 Peter Moloney
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If this Falls Road, Belfast, stencil is aimed at local audiences (rather than protesting the treatment of minorities by the state – see Institutionalised Racism) it is the first such piece in the Peter Moloney Collection. Sponsored by Ógra Shınn Féın.
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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Civil rights activist Eamonn McCann ran in the 2004 European election for the Socialist Environmental Alliance, gaining 1.6% of first preference votes.
Chamberlain Street, Derry
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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Still standing after nine years (1995) – a three-in-one RUC/Orange Order/loyalist paramilitary mural in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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The hammer and sickle in red and yellow – a stencil from the IRSP [Irish Republican Socialist Party], the political wing of the INLA.
Racecourse Road, Derry
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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Short Strand is a Catholic enclave of about 1,000 people in Protestant east Belfast. Throughout 2001 and 2002, the interface saw gun battles and rioting between the two factions. Here is a Guardian account of events in 2002. Above is a rejection of the new PSNI “There are many reasons for not joining the PSNI – this is just one” with a series of wanted posters (seen Collusion! Collusion! and Collusion Is State Murder plus one of Patrick Mayhew). Both parts by Ógra Shınn Féın. Divis Street, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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This is the Divis Street, Belfast, copy of Boycott Israeli Goods, seen previously in Beechmount and mid-Falls.
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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Following the unrest of 1969, the British Army took over the top two floors (18 and 19) of Divis Tower, for use as an observation post (notice all of the devices on poles in both the painting and reality) and was accessed by helicopter. The post would be dismantled in 2005 (BBC-NI has some images). Divis Street, Belfast.
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The long wall on Divis Street, Belfast, was originally largely covered by a to-scale stencil, called ‘Ban Plastic Bullets‘, detailing the distances at which the victims of plastic bullets were shot. The addition of Spot The Difference and West Belfast Taxis Tours in 2003 meant that only about half of it remained. These two are the right-hand side of the remaining mural.
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